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corresponds to an angle of less than 360 0 ; in effect if under these conditions we
should have, for instance, an interruption in the network current, as soon as the cur
rent is restored, the synchro-receiver rotor starts rotating till it reaches the coin
cidence position.
Otherwise the sensitivity of the synchro-transmission would be very low and
consequently the transmission accuracy very limited : in fact we would lose as
many whole rotations as are those which have taken place during the voltage in
terruption.
In order to avoid this, we use two synchro-transmitters and two synchro-re
ceivers, coupled as described hereafter.
The synchro-transmitter receiving the carriage movement (fast-synchro-tran
smitter) is coupled with a second synchro-transmitter (.slow-synchro-transmitter)
(fig. 8) by means of a mechanical coupling reducing the latter speed by 75 times.
sincro-trasmettitore
veloce
sincro-trasmettitore
lento
Fig. 8 - Mechanical coupling of synchro-transmitters
Collegamento meccanico dei sincro-trasmettitori
By means of this device the slow-synchro provides the required conditions
for givin a univocal correspondence for displacements up to 75 rotations of the
fast-synchro, i. e. it ensures the univocal correspondence between the transmitted
and the plotted position ; the fast-synchro (which does not provide the univocal
condition, ensured by the slow-synchro) allows on the other hand a high sensitivity
near the coincidence position (i. e. for relatively low error values) hence a high pre
cision of transmission.
An identical mechanical coupling is set up between the aforementioned synchri-
receiver (fast-synchro-receiver) and a second synchro-receiver (slow-synchro-
receiver) (fig. 9).
The connection between transmitters and receivers is shown in fig. 10.
It is now necessary to introduce a special device, called synchronizer, between the
synchro-receiver output and the synchro-amplifier input, to transfer to the servo-
amplifier input the voltage-error of the slow-synchro, when the error is of a high
value (such as may create for the fast-synchro the univocity problem of the po
sition transmitted), or the voltage-error of the fast-synchro for small values of
the voltage itself (and therefore under the limit below which the univocity of